Model demonstrating the potential for coupled nitrification denitrification in soil aggregates

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4180-4188

  Kremen, Arie ^a,b   Bear, Jacob ^a   Shavit, Uri ^a   Shaviv, Avi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; DENITRIFICATION; IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN; PH EFFECTS; WASTEWATER;

COUPLED NITRIFICATION/DENITRIFICATION (CND); MULTI-SPECIES DIFFUSION; RESPIRATORY ACTIVITY; SPHERICAL SOIL AGGREGATES;

SOILS;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN;

DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DENITRIFICATION; DIFFUSION; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RECLAMATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE WATER RECYCLING;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SOIL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 20044363809     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048304z     Document Type: Article

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